Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c740b3e70c4e335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-10-29 21:08:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 012b1ed1b9a6169d054e2ca6adb96549 SHA-1: d908b65cb803588d279304835f0e2c52c4fcc734 SHA-256: 9c740b3e70c4e335200c540d2a799abed252f64487c998aa1928c0c3d05f4c8f
232 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1553.005 Security Software Tampering

This PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one specifically to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/123?keyword=marvel+vs+capcom+3+free+download+for+pc+full+version' and also includes instructions to disable security software, indicating a malicious intent to trick the user into downloading further malware. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/123?keyword=marvel+vs+capcom+3+free+download+for+pc+full+version In PDF document text
    • https://gogiwujuduk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352159/2fd96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenabawik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710661/4070445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374196/normal_5f8b7027265f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gejatovuri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406669/ec797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suragovitig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265770/womulixetuxeru-kegavewa-buxugitadoru-rumugukozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folukufisika.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384255/dogugizuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a47a20f1-5ae5-4141-a102-8e147f2a5484/xelebewige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d239a96-4cdb-4903-9909-81873528ec0f/megufewuvupamejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ca7c29a-bd46-4bfa-bee7-8d2f421bcee5/gujisibobukamuxaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8262/6710/files/simple_interest_word_problems_worksheet_doc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/henghuili-files/atmega328p_programming_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/372acbbc-5186-40f5-93ae-ed47baf199ca/officer_jessica_costa_el_paso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7286b4e-9c8e-46c7-84b9-e7d5817525e7/ginovobudugilubiwodotila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec88c90f-6459-4ecf-a7fa-53329621af22/98365072176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f8b9ad6-3d5c-4c97-a1fb-711acfb979b4/30678949469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68B6 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 2ced93fdf7887944d52a810833b43ab479ad8ecdb4dfee17d5a2dac818c6444b
font_01_sfnt_off00007be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE3 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 698493ec10489abdd7eeeca0ea6e96df619b597f572463bb255dcf5abceabfcb
font_02_sfnt_off0000a210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA210 17192 bytes
SHA-256: ddb5d3dee7460dc1acc70f696cb95d35a229e67ef7002cd1478534aa819f9fcd